I had the most incredible convo with one of my students yesterday evening (he is a high school history teacher) and those individual moments of hope shine very brightly in the darkness of US decline. He's seen huge engagement among his students by organizing history content around themes +

Latest from me - I think we are not in a good place within education (in the US at least) for AI to show up and do its massive disruptive thing. (If you aren't a Medium member, I always post the gift link right below my subtitle and keywords.) medium.com/cross-cut-in...

Breaking from @karinfischer.bsky.social @chronicle.com: A federal judge hands the AAUP a major victory in a lawsuit against the Trump administration, calling the case “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court.” #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Is it just me, or are adults asking you really really basic questions all the time? Stuff they would know if they thought for 2 seconds or bothered to check documentation? Im not going to enjoy life in the coming world where everyone is functionally illiterate and no one learns anything.

Um what? It’s patriotic not to update your home or buy new furniture? Make it make sense.

Current admin is just living America’s ugly racist personality to its fullest in front of us. The rot goes deep and has never been addressed. Stop being shocked and start calling all of this what it is: authoritarianism as the handmaiden of US’s white supremacy and racism, usually in Jesus’ name.

Need to read more Fanon

My down the road neighbor’s Halloween decorations give me life

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

I am stupidly excited that a 4th Witcher game is in the oven and it will center on Ciri. This will be one of those "take the day off from work to play on day 1" kind of releases for me. TW3 changed my entire view of RPG 1-player games. It genuinely ruined the genre for me for a few years!

I desperately need CEOs to put down the hype inhaler and understand this. As an employee, your attempts to get me to use AI in my job will be successful only to the extent AI lessens my load instead of taking longer to do what I can do myself, correctly, the first time.

I just read the latest @gameinformer.com issue cover to cover, and I am so dang happy to see this crew back to work doing what they love. ✍️ I also noticed that extra glossy cover stock and nicer internal paper quality. 😍 And the poster pack-in for the new Phantom Blade game took me back to +

I hate that I even have to know what labubus are

friday gonna go delve into the world of a video game for a bit See that? People can use "delve" without being AI. I'm resisting AI ruining some of my favorite things, like using em dashes and the word "delve." Some of us read books as kids and still have a vocabulary....

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee. www.lpm.org/news/2025-09...

This week's theme: I am very tired of extremely entitled people who approach every conversation from a place of "I am right, and I will win, and if I don't win, I'm going to ask to speak to the manager." Ma'am, this is a graduate program, and I don't make the rules about any part of it.

daily toss-up: do I post something light and fun to distract from the burning dumpster fire that is democracy in the USA right now, or post something relevant to adding more fuel to the fire that burns down all our rights? both equally useful for mental health, I guess?

work laptop hardware failure on a Monday - good times!

This is a really excellent read. I happen to agree with the author's analysis which makes it even better. (I jest!) Companies have been profit > people for a long long time (apart from regulation to stop that natural outcome). It's 'bout to get a lot worse ... medium.com/ai-advances/...

Remembering that time my undergrad prof told us in September that he didn't grade papers during baseball playoff season. "I'll get your papers back once the World Series is over." I think my midterm grade consisted of 2 quizzes and a test but not the other 50% of the grade (the papers). Fun times

Dug up a piece I wrote a while back because I still like it. medium.com/cross-cut-in...

I have mentioned something similar to my friends who are parents. If your kids merely exist in this world, they are being targeted by algorithms that you can't easily control. Your sons are being recruited and fed a bunch of stories to make them angry, sexist, and primed to join the Right.

This is happening right this minute at one of the major public universities in my blood-red state, and things will only get uglier from here.

what a week, eh? While everything continues to burn, I am happy to report that Borderlands 4 is a ton of fun. What a weird time to be alive.

Today in "I can't believe I actually agree with this person whose ideas I generally hate, but here we are"

(1) I grew up in Christian Fundamentalism. Went to a very conservative, prominent, right-wing college. (No longer that person) It was a non-stop mantra in the 80s and 90s in those spaces to hear how voting in every election at every level was critical due to the power of influencing SCOTUS picks. +

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Outstanding creative work. I adore this kind of retro art. #bloodborne

More shitty behavior from YouTube: they used AI to straight up change people's content without asking and without informing. this author calls it digital sharecropping, locking creators into a system that only exploits them Good read. Let's do what we can. medium.com/write-your-w...

This is a very good read. It might be paywalled (I'm a Medium subscriber, so I'm not sure), but I think this guy is 100% spot on with his analysis. AI is not a miracle. It's not generating new ideas, just remixing the old. And it's not saving companies any money. medium.com/ai-advances/...

This is an important thread. Seth is correct in his argument. I'm not sure how this happened, other than perhaps Upton Sinclair's explanation that a man cannot come to understand an idea he's being paid to ignore (however that quote goes). I'll 100% vote Blue but wow Dems need to get it together

finally sat down and wrote a post on why I enjoyed playing The Invincible, a sci-fi immersive game based on the Stanislaw Lem novel of the same name. I think it was a solid AA Game and it deserves more love. medium.com/crit-hit/the...

Share Destiny: Rising with your friends to claim rewards! act.neteasegames.com/activity/3sS...

Wrote this last week, still chewing on it.... I think we aren't talking enough about how one's success using AI as a productive tool hinges on the level of expertise YOU bring to the task. #AI medium.com/@loriramey/e...

Can’t disagree

On vacation, friend has copy of Pedagogy of the Oppressed here, picked it up, can't stop reading because damn do we all need to be reminded right now that transformative work demands both action and reflection, else it is toxic and performative.

Academics and activists have tried to help people see that social problems are structural--that people's struggles often stem from the way systems of power and privilege prevent them from getting by or getting ahead. That kind of structural thinking is inoculation against authoritarianism.

People have embraced authoritarianism in large part because they've been sold individualistic explanations for social problems. If you think people are poor or unhoused because they've made "bad choices," then you'll see appeal in authoritarian leaders who promise to punish those who are "bad."

Gotta love the assertion that by refusing to even name and discuss the deep structural problems that plague America, somehow we'll magically solve them? my god this is a terrible viewpoint Do not let the DNC see this post. They're already so spineless as to see any effective speech as failure.

An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.

This is a fantastic read -- and just as applicable for us adult gamers as it is for children: medium.com/design-bootc...

Been thinking a lot about this lately. Hope to write some more in the coming weeks on AI use at the intersection of expertise vs inexperience. medium.com/@loriramey/e...

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a plant known as Etuberosum.

Definitely may favorite read of the week. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

What's cooking today, folks? I'm currently working on a side project that's been neglected for far too long. Happily sitting here with Illustrator open and a wheel of colors. Finished a great book this weekend, Likable Badass by Alison Fragale. Good read for the ladies in professional settings.

Been reading jon Bentley's Programming Pearls and I find these old 80s/90s computer structure / programming stories to be so helpful for thinking about ANY design space, not just within code projects. A delightful and useful book, especially if it's on your shelf and you haven't ever read it.